(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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Signing the Trade Expansion Act to encourage free trade with other nations
Free
Options for Kennedy: NAVAL BLOCKADE
Prevent vessels getting men and materials to Cuba- Similar to Brinksmanship.
If Krushchev defied the blockade there would be military intervention.
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962- Soviet missiles put in Cuba on 90 miles from the coast of America
Options for Kennedy: MILITARY INTERVENTION
'Surgical Air Strike' wanted by military. Kennedy saw it as too aggressive- The death of Soviets in Cuba could lead to WWIII.
The housing Act of 1961, which provided $4.9 billion for build new housing in urban areas
An executive order providing high quality surplus (extra and leftover) food to unemployed Americans
The Equal Pay Act, which protected women's right to fair and equal pay
The Equal Pay Act, which protected women's right to fair and equal pay
Signing of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the first nuclear weapons agreement
The expansion and increase of the minimum wage
Mutually Assured Destruction
Defying blockade would lead to military intervention and there for a war in which both sides have the weaponry to destroy each other.
A law doubling federal resources and money to stop and prevent water pollution
Options for Kennedy: DIPLOMACY
UN would take too long to reply
Changes to the welfare system that helped struggling families get off of welfare and be financially independent
Passage of the 24th Amendment which outlawed the poll tax, protecting all Americans' right to vote
Creation of stricter food and drug laws to protect Americans from untested medicines
Reasons for US Intervention in Vietnam
1) Already US involvement in South Vietnam.
2) Thought Diem was in control- Thought democracy was more likely.
3) Exiting Vietnam could result in the 'loss' of it to Communism- Didn't want to be associated w
Options for Kennedy: COMPROMISE
Removal of missiles in Turkey if Soviets removed theirs in Cuba.
Didn't want to be seen as backing down.
Existing Cuban Relations
January 1959- Castro overthrew Pro-American government.
Spring 1960- CIA state he isn't communist.
July 1960- Eisenhower approves Cuban exile military force to overthrow Castro.
Options for Kennedy: DO NOTHING
Endanger US national security if the nation seemed weak in the face of Soviet missiles.
Didn't want Krushchev to have another victory
Bay of Pigs Fiasco
April 1961- Sent Cuban exiles into Cuba in the hope of overthrowing Castro
Failure of the Bay of Pigs Fiasco
•US newspapers forewarned Castro of the planned invasion.
•Castro was hugely popular in Cuba so when the exiles were spotted they were quickly reported
Reasons for Kennedy's Involvement in Cuba.
1) Kennedy believed 3rd world countries would be the next 'Cold War Arena'.
2) Promised in his election campaign he wouldn't allow Cuba to become a Soviet base.
3) Plan endorsed by CIA and American war h
Reasons for Soviet Missiles in Cuba
US missiles in Turkey- "we must pay them back in their own coin".
Wanted to impress critics in Russia and in China.
Kennedy boasted regularly of the US nuclear superiority- Wanted to cement his own position.
